I lost a lot of respect for her over this.

I have lived in Japan, yes, and studied both the language and the culture (I have a Diploma in Japanese). Sexism and LGBTI issues in Japan are well documented and heavily commented upon, in scholarly articles, documentaries, online, in books, through media etc.

And now 10,000 comments about different cultures not being hung up on gender like the americans are as if the issues trans folks face is unique to the states.

So? Even if you subtract all the non-voters, about 25% of the country happily voted for Trump. This whole sad country is littered with hateful trash people. There is no state, city, county or town that doesn’t contain some of these horrible sociopaths. Fuck, if Iowa is only 10% virulent racist, that would make them…

He is one of four Members of Congress from Iowa. He represents a quarter of the state. He won 61% of the vote in 2016. Almost 227 thousand Iowans voted for him. That’s over 10% of the registered voters in Iowa (and only around 25% of the registered voters would have had the opportunity to vote for him).

I found myself similarly irked by “This is not a debate.” Maybe it *shouldn’t* be a debate, but let’s not deny reality here.

all of a sudden this video makes sense !

I can answer that: the people in the lower photo are Russians; that’s the Kremlin square in the ‘90s.

I mean, the phrase “involuntary immigrants” has been used to describe African-American slaves, but I’ve never thought of pairing it with the idea of “yeah, I’m tightly chained and puddled in filth and not really sure where I’m going but I hope my grandson will be a doctor.”

Charge your phone you heathen!

But that would make sense, wouldn’t it? The issue with trans athletes is to ensure a level playing field. As far I am aware, there have not been any trans men competing at an Olympic level in a sport where strength is the primary factor in performance - a duatholon (biking and running) would pose much less of an issue…

I’d say they hide the fact that they’re not pervs very well.

the fact that this person is unironically equating women with large breasts to nazi collaborators is pretty fucking hilarious honestly.

I think, after reading the article, that the author would probably be vaguely annoyed at how shallow your reading of her statements are. She’s not at all saying that “feminism has morphed into man-hating”, she’s saying that feminism has morphed into vapid self-empowerment mantras and a quest to find a way of…

“I’m not a democrat! They aren’t authentically liberal. They devote themselves to aesthetics but don’t tackle the more important issues. So many high-profile democrats don’t accurately reflect what I believe. . . . OH SHIT THEY LOST THE ELECTION? HOW?”

I couldn’t finish that movie. Too heartbreaking.

It doesn’t not mean that

No, I said near the In-N-Out Burger.

Funnily enough, there was a lot of outrage in Japan over the live-action adaptation of Attack on Titan because it cast the characters (who were all German in the original show, except for one Asian woman, which is a significant plot point) with entirely Japanese actors, often wearing blond wigs and colored contact…

Actually no, it's already been shown in the previews that you can scale the regular large monsters as well. Obviously not the ones like Jaggi and whatnot, but things like the Diablos etc are scalable.